Ubuntu server, I want to switch to debian but I don't know if it'll be worth it
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I use Proxmox, running a mix of regular and NixOS based LXCs. One of those also runs Docker for simpler services.
Debian + Docker.
Proxmox VE with Alpine Linux guests
I've got a homemade NAS running unRAID and my arr suite/Jellyfin/qbittorrent, and an orangepi running the orangepiOS (flavor of Ubuntu I think?) Which handles home assistant and associated containers .
Host is Proxmox, with Ubuntu LTS VMs.
Freebsd, but it would be openbsd if it had a better filesystem.
NetBSD
TrueNAS Scale
ArchlinuxARM, however it does not matter, given that everything I actually run, runs within Docker
arch + docker for the services
Nixos, brothers and sisters, show yourself 🥸
TrueNAS Core as main OS and a few jails for the services I run on the machine.
Right now Debian, but I'll migrate to NixOS pretty soon since it's already running on all of my machines except this server.
Unraid for NAS stuff
Proxmox for Smart home crap
Currently Ubuntu server 22.04
Previous was ESXi
Next one will be Proxmox
OpenMediaVault (Debian), it's the perfect amount of tinkering and simplicity for my first nas/homeserver
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I am running Ubuntu server and I am... satisfied with it. It does what it should, no problems, nothing to worry about, stable AF (as any mature distro?). But lately I am thinking about switching to fedora server (I need to reset my system one way or another, because my space on the hard drive for the system ran out of space (it was a small drive)). I am using fedora on my work machine and I really like it, so I thought I could give fedora on my server a try.
Ubuntu normal release running Docker containers.
Had various issues with Debian Bookworm, not being able to install the “server” meta package on one server which left me without all the basics but “apt” and issues with lost IPv6 connections that made me switch to Ubuntu
FreeBSD & 9Front. BSD for my media server and 9front for my web server.
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My 3 hosts all run Proxmox. Publicly available services run in VMs, usually running Ubuntu. Private services are usually Docker containers connected directly to my TailScale network running directly on the host.
Arch is the best
Proxmox w/Debian, TrueNAS Scale, and Home Assistant VMs w/(usually Alpine) Docker containers in some VMs
Debian.
slackware, freebsd, netbsd
FreeBSD as main OS with jails and one bhyve vm for docker stuff. And ubuntu server on a dell optiplex micro for jellyfin with hardware transcoding
Currently Unraid, haven't tried anything else lol
Ubuntu, but I'm very strongly considering switching out to Debian or Rocky. Ubuntu has a lot of really unnecessary cruft that I think I'd be better off without.
I use Fedora on my laptop now, so going the RHEL/Rocky/Alma route for my servers is really tempting. Especially as I'm also considering switching to Podman.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| ESXi | VMWare virtual machine hypervisor |
| Git | Popular version control system, primarily for code |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| LTS | Long Term Support software version |
| LXC | Linux Containers |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NVMe | Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SMTP | Simple Mail Transfer Protocol |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
| k8s | Kubernetes container management package |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.
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I have 4 home servers. 1 running pfsense, 1 running truenas, 1 running proxmox, and 1 is a cloud key gen2 for unifi that I got for free
One with Arch that runs gameservers for my friends, and another that runs Proxmox filled with either Arch or Debian in the containers depending on what it is in them.
Ubuntu LTS because that's what I was most comfortable with at the time, now I'd really like to switch over to Debian but I'm not sure I can be bothered until I really have to, everything is working well at the moment. It's running in Proxmox.